Motivational Quotes

Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

- Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Best Quotes about Work

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

11.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

21.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

48.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie